- Joined
- Sep 24, 2001
After years of trolling the forums I finally took the plunge and put together a water cooling setup. It contained a Switech Micro Res and Storm CPU Block. I believe the rad is a Black Ice single, but I could be wrong. The Block is DDC or variant there off with a Petra's top I installed myself. I ran it with Tygon 1/2" Silver tubing. The plumbing of the loop went well. I was able to bleed 99% of the air out of the system quicker than I expected. So I thought I would just let the pump run for the leak test. Only the pump was running no fans or other components were plugged in. I went outside to clear the snow (1 - 2 feet of it) off my driveway. An hour later I came back inside and found the pump had stopped running and was rather warm to the touch. I turned off the power supply and let it sit for a little while, when I tried it again nothing happened. I'm pretty sure that the pump is toast and I have a replacement on order with rush delievery as I haven't had my computer running since Sunday. What I would like to know is if I did anything wrong. I do not want to repeat this with my new pump.